When I plugged it in, Mint detected it and offered to install, but a different model (350 instead of 300). I agreed and it installed but wouldn't print.
I googled around and tried this suggestion which claims success with a package called hannah-foo2zjs. This package removed CUPS, so I was not able to follow further. Uninstalled hannah-foo2zjs and restored whatever had been removed.
My second angle of attack was to try foo2qpdl. I folowed the INSTALL instructions and it resulted in successful installation and printing:
At this point I almost declared victory, but when I tried to make the printer "default" (instead of the PDF printer). It stopped printing. When I made the PDF default, my CLP-300 started printing again. Then after a couple of printing jobs it stopped printing. By stopped I mean the job goes into printing queue, the green light on the printer flashes for a sec, the job disappears from the queue and no printing happens. I requested a test page from cups (at the localhost web interface) and it printed. After this I was able to print normally again but only a couple times before the jobs stopped going through.
At this point I went back to the INSTALL instructions and noticed that down the page it says:
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DEBIAN NOTES
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Install build-essential, tix, foomatic-filters, groff, cupsys, dc FIRST
What do I do now?